Olympocalypse 2016

[ECA]

This is going to go well.
I believe the chinese team en route to the olympic village was caught in the middle of a gang gunfight, and the pool swimming teams are training in the training pool with snorkels because the water in the swimming pool is "cloudy and soupy".

Over 20 athletes have been robbed already, and the british swimming teams gear has been nicked from the olympic village so they'll be in PJs I suppose.

The IOC really delivering a masterclass here.

 

[DaGaffer]

Report: Russian Diplomat Uses Jiu-Jitsu To Disarm, Kill Would-Be Robber During Rio Torch Relay

And it gets better; apparently not a Russian Diplomat at all (the name was a bit of a giveaway), just impersonating one. Ah, Brasil...

 

[Raven]

Did anyone expect anything different? It's about time things like this weren't given to shit holes but instead, civilised countries.

They don't benefit the people at all.

 

[old.user4556]

Someone's also been raped.

Correction: an athlete has been arrested for alleged sexual assault.

Rio 2016: Moroccan boxer held over alleged sex assault - BBC News

 

[Job]

Best Olympics yet.

 

[fettoken]

Well, that's what Moroccan's do.

 

[Bodhi]

Did anyone expect anything different? It's about time things like this weren't given to shit holes but instead, civilised countries.

They don't benefit the people at all.

I know, it's like giving the World Cup to some backwater like Russia or Qatar.

Oh.

 

[Embattle]

Money Honey.

 

[old.user4556]

It's about time things like this weren't given to shit holes but instead, civilised countries.

But London isn't a sh... fair point.

 

[BloodOmen]

Seems Brazil couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

 

[Job]

View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BItbXnsBFgB/

 

[BloodOmen]

View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BItbXnsBFgB/

Sort of thing I'd expect from the council in the UK

 

[ECA]

 

[ECA]

View: https://twitter.com/liadcruz/status/761527200311107585

 

[fettoken]

@TdC I had a moment of weakness, sorry. It's just that were getting loads of reports of Moroccan street 'children' raping women, and also a Moroccan teen soccer team, who's trainer and then the whole team surrounded and felt up/fingered three 16-y/o's at Gothia cup.

On topic: Wow, Rio's a worse shithole than i previously had thought. A friend's been travelling around Brazil and i haven't heard one bad thing from him.

 

[Job]

Rio 2016 will be like watching school sports day writ very large

 

[Gwadien]

Watched a thing on Mo yesterday and he was training in some sketchy places. Now I see why, guess you run quicker if you're being chased.

I wonder how they'll do the out of the area stuff such as cycling - they're gonna have to have armed police all the way through the course.

 

[DaGaffer]

@TdC I had a moment of weakness, sorry. It's just that were getting loads of reports of Moroccan street 'children' raping women, and also a Moroccan teen soccer team, who's trainer and then the whole team surrounded and felt up/fingered three 16-y/o's at Gothia cup.

On topic: Wow, Rio's a worse shithole than i previously had thought. A friend's been travelling around Brazil and i haven't heard one bad thing from him.

When I was travelling, Rio was one of only three places I was nervous when out, the other two were Manaus, also in Brazil, and Tegucigalpa in Honduras. Rio is proper dodgy, even during the day.

 

[old.user4556]

Olympic Photographer Robbed in Rio, $40K of Gear Stolen in 10 Seconds

 

[Lamp]

They spent a fortune on the pool

 

[Job]

I hate to say it, but if they scrapped the Olympics forever...I would be like meh.

 

[caLLous]

 

[fettoken]

When I was travelling, Rio was one of only three places I was nervous when out, the other two were Manaus, also in Brazil, and Tegucigalpa in Honduras. Rio is proper dodgy, even during the day.

Even back in the days? I'm talking 10-15 years ago.

edit: Apparently they didn't steal the torch to light the olympic fire. Hm.

 

[DaGaffer]

Even back in the days? I'm talking 10-15 years ago.

edit: Apparently they didn't steal the torch to light the olympic fire. Hm.

I was in Rio in...early 2007 (Carnival). As far as I'm aware its only got worse since then. I met a girl in Argentina who'd been mugged at gunpoint in Rio, and she reckoned she was one of many staying at her hostel. I was lucky in a way that I was hanging out with a local for most of my time there so I got decent advice. Most surprising thing to me was that the ATMs close at 9PM to stop people being dragged at gunpoint to the machines to empty their accounts (this happened to some Irish lads when I was in La Paz in Bolivia a few months later).

 

[Embattle]

Probably could of saved money if they made the venues with less seats, judging by the number of empty ones.

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[Job]

That leg break...nasty...even weirder is the reaction in the room.

 

[Moriath]

That leg break...nasty...even weirder is the reaction in the room.

Perhaps link to what you are refering

 

[TheDoon]

The leg break

Spoiler

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laXLxBRw2oA

 

[caLLous]

Olympic Photographer Robbed in Rio, $40K of Gear Stolen in 10 Seconds

Unexpected good news on this one.